Selectmen Robert Rebello and Gary E. Mauk said they have opposed it from the start.

Chairman J. Duncan Albert said that it would make more sense to install a wind turbine in a location that has more wind. The money can be better spent elsewhere.

Selectman Brian Valcourt said Steve Pitney of Alternative Energy could sue the board because it had signed a contract with him.

Pitney, on his plan to sue the board, said, I hadn’t thought of it, but it is always a possibility.

Pitney said that he was planning to wait until after the April 2009 town election and see whether a new board is more amenable to the project.